Erythranthe lewisii |
Erythranthe dentata |
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great purple monkey-flower |
coastal monkey-flower, tooth-leaved monkey-flower |
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Habit | Perennial from stout, branching rhizomes, the stout stems clustered, 3-10 dm. tall; herbage viscid-villous. | Perennial from well-developed, shallow rhizomes, the stems ascending or loosely erect, 1-4 dm. tall, the herbage with stiff, white hairs. |
Leaves | Leaves opposite, sessile, with several prominent veins from the base, irregularly dentate to entire, the lower ones reduced; leaves lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, acute, 3-7 cm. long and 1-3.5 cm. wide. |
Leaves opposite, serrate, pinnately veined, but the principle lateral veins arising below the middle; leaf blades lance-elliptic to ovate, acute, the lower short-petiolate, the upper sessile, 2-7 cm. long and 1-3.5 cm. wide. |
Flowers | Flowers solitary in the leaf axils on pedicels 3-6 cm. long; calyx 1.5-2.5 cm. long, the 5 teeth sharp-pointed and equal; corolla showy, purplish-pink, marked with yellow, 3.5-5 cm. long, strongly bilabiate; stamens 4. |
Flowers few, solitary in the leaf axils, on long pedicels; calyx 8-16 mm. long, 5-angled with spreading hairs along the ribs, the 5 teeth acute, 2-5 mm. long; corolla 2.5-4 cm. long, bilabiate, yellow, the long, strongly-flaring throat often red-dotted, the 5 well-developed lobes sometimes washed with reddish-purple; stamens 4. |
Fruit | Capsule. |
Capsule. |
Erythranthe lewisii |
Erythranthe dentata |
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Flowering time | June-August | May-September |
Habitat | Common in wet meadows and along rivers and streams from middle to high elevations in the mountains, occasionally found along low elevation rivers. | Stream banks and other moist places to wet places from the lowlands to middle elevations in the mountains. |
Distribution | Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.
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Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; southwestern British Columbia to northern California.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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